It is quite interesting to hear how the Afghan official (end of the clip) is trying to pressure the border guard not to reveal that it is Iran supplying the Taliban with weapons. It is also strange that the International forces and the Afghan government have been reluctant to talk about this reality. Iran is [...]
Link to pictures from Newroz, Kurdish new year, celebration in the city of Mehabad.Link to article
Last week the United Kingdom launched its annual report on Human Rights. Five pages of the report (P. 113-118) are dedicated to the human rights situation in Iran. On the issue of minorities the report says:
Members of Iran’s ethnic minority groups from the Ahwaz, Kurdistan, Khuzestan, Baluchistan and Turkmenistan regions also face increasing intimidation. Large [...]
The Middle East Institute hosted Carol Prunhuber, my colleague Sharif Behruz who works as the PDKI’s U.S. representative and my brother Idris Ahmedi to speak about the political, social and human rights status of Iran’s Kurds Below you can watch videos from the discussion.
VOA-Persian visited one of our bases and spoke to a couple of our female Peshmergas, Audio in Persian.
I want to introduce Hiwa Abdelzadeh, who will as of tomorrow begin to work as a Political Aide to myself. You can follow his work by visiting his blog, in which he will:
write about the coverage of Iran and Kurdistan in the United Kingdom […]. I will more specifically write about the United Kingdoms foreign [...]
In memory of our dear friend Yousef Faghihi who was killed together with three other brave Peshmergas by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on the 21 of August last year. Today would have been Yousefs birthday. We all miss him very much.
Some pictures of Yousef:
At the same time as the Islamic Republic of Iran sends millions of dollars to extremist Arab organizations in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq the Arab population of Ahwaz in Iran suffers extreme poverty and discrimination.
The Islamic Republic of Iran portrays its self as the champion of Arab rights in all of the above-mentioned countries, [...]
According to Iran’s penal code an individual that is convicted of conducting “Mohareb”, (which means waging war) against God should be executed. The regime in Iran has used this notion of “Enemy of God” to crack down on all forms of dissident since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979.
It began when Ayatollah Khomeini [...]
Iran’s selected president, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, is currently in Afghanistan to meet with Afghan president Hamid Karzai. During a press conference yesterday Ahmedinejad claimed that the United States has created the terrorists in Afghanistan.
It has been evident for years now that Iran supports different armed groups in Afghanistan. Iran even supports its former archenemy, the Taliban’s. [...]
